committed, and keep all my commandments, and: do judgment and justice: living he shall live, and shall not die. I will not remember all his iniquities that he hath done in his justice, which he hath wrought, he shall live. Is it my will that a sinner. should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should be converted from his ways, and live? But if the just man turn himself away from his justice, and do iniquity according to all the abominations which the wicked man useth to work, shall he live? All his justices which he hath done, shall not be remembered in the prevarication, by which he hath prevaricated, and in his sin, which he hath committed, in them he shall die. And you have said: The way of the Lord is not right. Hear ye, therefore, O house of Israel: is it my way that is not right, and are not rather your ways perverse? For when the just turneth himself away from his justice, and committeth iniquity, he shall die therein: in the injustice that he hath wrought, he shall die. And when the wicked turneth himself away from his wickedness, which he hath wrought, and doeth judgment and justice, he shall save his soul alive. Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his iniquities, which he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and not die, saith the Lord Almighty.

GRADUAL. Ps. lxxxv.-Save, O Lord, thy servant, who hopeth in thee. V. Give ear, O Lord, ̧ to my prayer. TRACT. Ps. cii.

Deal not with us, as p. 116.

At that time:

Cospel, John v. 1. 15. There was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now there at Jerusalem a pond. called Probatica, which in Hebrew is named Bethsaida, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of sick, of blind, of lame, and of withered, waiting for the moving of the water.. And the ans

gel of the Lord went down at certain times into the pond'; and the water was moved. And he that went down first into the pond after the motion of the water, was made whole of whatsoever infirmity he lay under. And there was a certain man there, that had been eight and thirty years under his infirmity. Him when Jesus had seen lying, and knew that he had been now a long time, he saith to him: Wilt thou be made whole? The infirm man answered him: Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pond. For whilst I am coming, another goeth down before me. Jesus saith to him: Arise, take up thy bed, and walk. And immediately the man was made whole: and he took up his bed and walked. And it was the Sabbath that day. The Jews therefore said to him that was cured: It is the Sabbath, it is not lawful for thee to take up thy bed. He answered them: He that made me whole, he said to me: Take up thy bed, and walk. They asked him therefore: Who is that man that said to thee: Take up thy bed, and walk? But he that was healed, knew not who it. was; for Jesus went aside from the multitude that was standing in the place. Afterwards Jesus findeth him in the temple, and saith to him: Behold thou art made whole; sin no more, lest some worse thing happen to thee. The man went his way, and told the Jews that it was Jesus that had made him whole.

OFFERT. Ps. cii.-Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not what he hath done for thee: and thou shalt grow young like an eagle.

SECRET. Receive, O Lord, we beseech thee, the offerings of our homage, and mercifully sanctify thy own gifts. Thro'.

COMM. Ps. vi.-Let all my enemies be put to shame and be dismayed: let them be put to flight and shame very speedily.

P. COMM. Per hujus.-May the efficacy of this

sacrament, O Lord, cleanse us from our sins, and obtain for us the accomplishment of our just desires. Thro'.

Let us pray. Bow down your heads to God.

PRAYER.

Exaudi.

Graciously hear us, merciful God, and manifest the light of thy grace to our souls. Thro'.

EMBER-SATURDAY.

INTROIT. Ps. lxxxvii.

ET my prayer come before thee, O Lord; give

God, my Saviour, to thee have I cried out night and day. V. Glory.

Immediately after the Kyrie eleison, is said: Let us pray. Let us kneel down. R. Stand up again. I. COLLECT. Populum tuum.- Mercifully, O Lord, look down on thy people, and in thy clemency turn away from them the scourges of thy wrath. Thro'.

I. LESSON. Deut. xxvi. 13. In those days: Moses spoke to the people, saying: When thou hast made an end of tithing all thy fruits, in the third year of tithes thou shalt give it to the Levite, and to the stranger, and to the fatherless, and to the wi dow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled and thou shalt speak thus in the sight of the Lord thy God: I have taken that which was sanctified out of my house, and I have given it to the Levite and to the stranger, and to the fatherless and to the widow, as thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, nor forgotten thy precepts. I have not eaten of them in my mourning, nor separated them for any uncleanness, nor spent any thing of them in funerals. I have obeyed the voice of the Lord my God, and have done all things as thou hast commanded me. Look from thy sanctuary, and thy high habitation of hea

ven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou didst swear to our fa thers; a land flowing with milk and honey. This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these commandments and judgments: and to keep and fulfil them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. Thou hast chosen the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways and keep his ceremonies, and precepts and judgments, and obey his command. And the Lord hath chosen thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath spoken to thee, and to keep all his commandments: And to make thee higher than all nations which he hath created, to his own praise, and name, and glory : that thou mayest be a holy people of the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.

GRAD. Ps. lxxviii.-Forgive us, O Lord, our offences, lest the Gentiles say: Where is now their God? V. Help us, O God, our Saviour, and for the glory of thy name deliver us, O Lord. Let us pray. Let us kneel down. R. Stand up again. II. COLLECT. Protector. Look on us, O God, our protector, that we, who labour under the weight of our own evils, may be rescued by thy mercy, and serve thee with a free mind. Thro'.

II. LESSON. Deut. xi. 22.25.—In those days: Moses said to the children of Israel: If you keep the commandments which I command you, and do them, to love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, cleaving unto him, the Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them which are greater and stronger than you. Every place, that your foot shall tread upon, shall be yours. From the desart, and from Libanus, from the great river Euphrates unto the western sea shall be your borders, none shall stand against you; the Lord your God shall lay the dread and fear of you

upon all the land that you shall tread upon, as hẹ hath spoken to you.

GRAD. Ps. lxxxiii.-Cast an eye upon us, O God our protector, look down upon thy servants. V. Lord God of armies, hear the prayers of thy

servants.

Let us pray. Let us kneel down. R. Stand up again.

III. COLLECT. Adesto.-Give ear, O Lord, we beseech thee, to our prayers; that, through the assistance of thy grace, we may be humble in prosperity, and without fear in adversity. Thro'.

III. LESSON. 2 Machab. i. 23. 27.-In those days: All the priests were in prayer while the sacrifice was consuming, Jonathan beginning, and the rest answering. And the prayer of Nehemias was after this manner: O Lord God, creator of all things, dreadful, and strong, just, and merciful, who alone art the good king. Who alone art gracious, who alone art just, and almighty, and eternal, who deliverest Israel from all evil, who didst choose the fathers, and didst sanctify them: receive the sacrifice for all thy people Israel, and pre serve thy own portion, and sanctify it. Gather together our scattered people, deliver them that are slaves to the Gentiles, and look upon them that are despised and abhorred: that the Gentiles may know that thou art our God.

GRAD. Ps. lxxxix-Turn to us, O Lord, little, and be reconciled with thy servants. V. Thou, O Lord, hast been our refuge from generation to generation.

Let us pray. Let us kneel down. R. Stand up again. IV. COLLECT. Preces.-Mercifully hear, we beseech thee, O Lord, the prayers of thy people that we, who are justly afflicted for our sins, may mercifully be delivered for the glory of thy name.

Thro'.

IV. LESSON. Eccles. xxxvi. 1. 10.-Have mer.